[kwlug-disc] $30,000/yr to get your app on the $nap $tore

[William Park]

What about Windows side, then?

On 3/16/21 12:29 PM, Doug Moen wrote:
> I didn't realize that Ubuntu has erected a paywall around their walled 
> garden Snap Store.
> You can't get your app on the Snap Store without Ubuntu's permission, 
> you can't run your own Snap Store or provide snap autoupdates without 
> Ubuntu's permission because the server side is proprietary (unlike 
> Flatpak), and if your app is related to a commercial business, Ubuntu 
> wants a cut.
> https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-and-against-ubuntu-core
> 
> This is exactly the sort of nonsense I'm trying to get away from, 
> motivating my migration from MacOS to Linux. The bottom line is that I 
> am no longer comfortable being part of the Ubuntu community. If I 
> perceive a distro to be malware then I don't want to run it, and I don't 
> want to spend time after each upgrade disabling malware.
> 
> In other news, I notice that Wayland finally reaches a "1.0" state in 
> the forthcoming Fedora 34 release. There will be support for remote 
> desktop, and there will be accelerated graphics using an Nvidia GPU. 
> Wayland deficiencies have been a blocking issue for me in the past when 
> I've considered running Fedora. Lots of other recent work in Fedora that 
> interests me too. Eg, Fedora 33 is the first release that defaults to 
> BTRFS on root.
> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/03/15/what-to-look-for-fedora-workstation-34/
> 
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